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    2 Questions about performance

    I am coming from a Droid Charge (rooted with a custom ROM). I'm happy with the performance of the phone overall except for two things. 1.) The phone slows down noticeably when using a live wallpaper (scrolling or swiping through homescreens slows down somewhat) 2.) When reopening dolphin...
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    Coming from a Droid Incredible

    I currently have an HTC Incredible. I'm still very happy with the phone overall but I would like a bigger screen and 4G. I'm very interested in the Bionic but I have two possible concerns at this point: 1.) I went to a VZW store today to play with a Droid 3 to get an idea of what the Bionic...
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    Extended battery timeframe

    I'm coming from an HTC Droid Incredible with the HTC extended battery (2150mah). I've made my peace with the size and I've really come to love the extra battery life. I've heard that Motorola phones have better battery life than HTC phones but I still may find myself wanting an extended battery...
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    Root Will I need to unroot in order to the official 2.2 OTA?

    Or can I just stay rooted and wait for the official OTA? I have the stock kernel.
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    Help app to switch wifi on/off based on location

    Can someone recommend a good app to automatically toggle wifi based on when I leave my house, which is the only place I use WiFi.
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    Help Location setting

    Do you use "Use wireless networks" or "use GPS" for your location setting, with an eye towards preserving battery life? I've heard that using GPS can be better on battery life because it only draws power when an application needs to use the GPS (which shouldn't be too often). I also heard that...
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    Screen Brightness Setting

    Are you using automatic or do you have it set to a certain brightness level? I'm on automatic right now and I'm just wondering if I should put it on a fixed level to maximize battery life.